EEVblog 1705 - The World's First Desktop Computer TEARDOWN

[5U4GB]

Even such an insignificant invention as putting a hot wire in a glass bottle attracted envy. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_G%C3%B6bel

In any case everyone knows lightbulb was invented by Soviet Union.

[golden_labels]

In the National Museum of Technology in Warsaw⁽¹⁾ there is an big room. That chamber is entirely dedicated to what feels like trying to tell visitors Poland created everything.

Some are “technically true,” like Kazimierz Żegleń’s involvement in designing a bulletproof vest. Some, like Malinowski’s work, are engineering achievements, but put out of context and giving them too much credit. Most are just shifting the terms, ignoring the entire wider perspective, or presenting a minor improvement as something much greater than it is. Somehow a lightbulb is not there, if I recall correctly.

Fortunately the rest of the museum is more reasonable.

⁽¹⁾ Don’t be deceived by the article consisting of two paragraphs only. The museum is not that small or unimportant!

[5U4GB]

Oh, I didn't know Poland did that too.  I made the Soviet Union joke because they seemed to do it with everything, including stuff where the Soviet "invention" came after someone else's, e.g. the Su-24 copy of the F-111 and bits of the Mirage G8 where they proudly announced that the Americans had "confirmed the correctness of the chosen decisions when creating the Su-24".  Or, in the case of the Yablochkov Candle, before the Soviet Union even existed.

[shapirus]

You should send it to Mend it Mark. He can bring it back to life no doubt.

[golden_labels]

Oh, I didn't know Poland did that too.  I made the Soviet Union joke because they seemed to do it with everything, including stuff where the Soviet "invention" came after someone else's, e.g. the Su-24 copy of the F-111 and bits of the Mirage G8 where they proudly announced that the Americans had "confirmed the correctness of the chosen decisions when creating the Su-24".  Or, in the case of the Yablochkov Candle, before the Soviet Union even existed.

One of the important things history taught me, is that history has always been heavily distorted to serve the contemporary narratives. The history of science and technology is no exception. Neither is any place an exception — just a matter of time and needs. For many places it simply didn’t happen yet, by pure coincidence. But wait long enough and I’d bet we’ll hear Copernicus was Australian.

[kite31]

But wait long enough and I’d bet we’ll hear Copernicus was Australian.

Well he was planning to emigrate before he heard that everything here is trying to kill you so he stayed home with the wolves and bears. We might have had the rainbow-serpent-centric model.

[5U4GB]

But wait long enough and I’d bet we’ll hear Copernicus was Australian.

What, "Brekky" Copernicus from Bondi?  Of course he's Australian!  Next thing you'll be telling us your museum in Warsaw is claiming he was Polish.